#secondlife (8 links)
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Virtual worlds open up to blind news.bbc.co.uk
Online virtual worlds could soon be accessible to blind people thanks to research by students at IBM in Ireland.
- Myrl || Connecting Worlds myrl.com
Myrl, a social network for the Metaverse. Here your avatar can connect to multiple online worlds and to the web.
It may very well be that Second Life is over-hyped or ill-conceived for business purposes. Even if so, however, it’s not due to the five provably bogus claims.
The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.
Coke works hard to leverage their brand in the real world and are now opening up the options for their brand to be extended virtually - an importantly - by other people. In a way, this is user-generated NPD.
- The Penguin Blog: In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream thepenguinblog.typepad.com
When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...
- Main Page - Croquet Consortium croquetconsortium.org
"A powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperabl
- SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check - Valleywag valleywag.com
"I suspect Second Life is largely a "Try Me" virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited."